Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Infrastructure Automation
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 31 82
Rank change year-on-year -31 +51 +28
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 8 36 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.34% 4.99% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 5.87% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 36 3
10th Percentile £502 £288 £480
25th Percentile £505 £381 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £515 £419 £663
90th Percentile £518 £519 £730
West Yorkshire median daily rate £510 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +27.50% -27.27% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Infrastructure Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 533 613 993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.13% 84.90% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 399 694
10th Percentile £304 £350 £351
25th Percentile £400 £419 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -9.09% +9.73%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £638
90th Percentile £658 £651 £718
West Yorkshire median daily rate £494 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.30% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 21 13
10th Percentile £25.15 - £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £16.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.12% -13.16% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £33.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £38.75 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £29.56 £17.75 £18.00
% change year-on-year +66.51% -1.39% -10.00%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in Leeds

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) SSL
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) VPN
3 2 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) React
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
4 3 (37.50%) High Availability
4 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
5 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (25.00%) Observability
5 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
6 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 1 (12.50%) Compliance Audit
6 1 (12.50%) RBAC
6 1 (12.50%) Secrets Management
6 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
3 3 (37.50%) Grafana
3 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (12.50%) Kustomize
4 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (25.00%) F5
1 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Zscaler